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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: John Earle, List of the Westminster Divines, John Dury, Cornelius Burges, Daniel Featley, Henry Hammond, Christopher Love, John Conant, Francis Cheynell, William Gouge, John Lightfoot, Peter Sterry, John White, Edmund Calamy the Elder, Robert Harris, Thomas Ford, Samuel Ward, George Walker, Lazarus Seaman, Richard Holdsworth, William Twisse, Charles Herle, John Ley, William Bridge, William Nicholson, Edward Reynolds, Edmund Staunton, Richard Love, Thomas Westfield, Joshua Hoyle, Jeremiah Burroughs, Daniel Cawdry, Richard Capel, Calybute Downing, William Greenhill, William Spurstowe, Obadiah Sedgwick, Henry Wilkinson, Thomas Gataker, William Mew, Ralph Brownrigg, Simeon Ashe, Thomas Coleman, John Bond, Richard Byfield, Thomas Case, Henry Scudder, Robert Sanderson, Philip Nye, John Arrowsmith, Richard Vines, Samuel Bolton, John Harris, Robert Crosse, Anthony Burges, George Morley, Sidrach Simpson, Josias Shute, John Hacket, Anthony Tuckney, Henry Tozer, William Strong, Thomas Young, Thomas Baylie, Edward Corbet, Thomas Hill, Stephen Marshall, William Lyford, Jeremiah Whitaker, Andrew Perne, Joseph Caryl, Matthew Newcomen. Excerpt: The members of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, sometimes known collectively as the Westminster Divines, are those clergymen who participated in the Assembly that drafted the Westminster Confession of Faith. The Long Parliament's initial ordinance creating the Westminster Assembly appointed 121 ministers of the Church of England to the Assembly, as well as providing for participation on the part of 30 lay assessors (10 nobles and 20 commoners), as well as six Commissioners representing the Church of Scotland. Of the original 121 divines, approximately 25 never took their seats in the Assembly. The Parliament subsequently added 21 additional ministers to the Assembly (the additions being ...
